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Concept

Intellect

Images

  • A man whose face expresses, according to Lavater, a great capacity for discernment. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • Left profile of a head showing depressed frontal lobes. Drawing, c. 1900.
  • A man writing; representing the faculty of memory. Engraving, 16--.
  • A woman holds the sun in her hand; representing the faculty of understanding. Engraving, 16--.
  • Head of a boy in profile, used to illustrate phrenological classifications of mental pathology.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Traumatic personality change and intellectual impairment / by W.R. Reynell.

    Reynell, W. R. | Date: 1944
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    The measure of merit : talents, intelligence, and inequality in the French and American republics, 1750-1940 / John Carson.

    Carson, John, 1954- | Date: [2007], ©2007
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    Intelligence and mental growth / by Claude A. Claremont.

    Claremont, Claude A. (Claude Albert), 1890- | Date: 1927
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    Hereditary genius : an inquiry into its laws and consequences / by Francis Galton.

    Galton, Francis, 1822-1911. | Date: 1869
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    Quest : the essence of humanity / Charles Pasternak.

    Pasternak, Charles A. (Charles Alexander) | Date: 2003
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